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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Norton Paperback) (Taschenbuch)

von Christoph Wolff (Autor) "By an auspicious coincidence, Sebastian Nagel, town piper of Gotha and friend of Johann Ambrosius Bach, happened to be in Eisenach on the third weekend..." (mehr)

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Taschenbuch: 624 Seiten
Verlag: W W Norton & Co; Auflage: Reprint (September 2001)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0393322564
ISBN-13: 978-0393322569
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 23,6 x 15,5 x 2,8 cm

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The Learned Musician is an apt subtitle for this intellectual biography, which assesses the career of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) with the scholarly rigour one would expect from a Harvard professor. Opening with a 1737 attack by a critic who labelled Bach a pedant who spoiled the natural beauty of his creations with "an excess of art", Christoph Wolff cogently compares the German composer to English scientist Isaac Newton. Both men "brought about fundamental changes and established new principles" in their chosen fields, he argues; both sought to reveal God's harmonious ordering of their world. While Wolff conscientiously covers the basics of Bach's life, including his two marriages and the musical achievements of his gifted family, the author's primary focus is on his performing (Bach was an unrivalled organist) and composing. From the Goldberg Variations through the Brandenburg Concertos to Art of the Fugue, Wolff carefully analyses Bach's innovations in harmony and counterpoint, placing them in the context of European musical and social history rendered in nicely atmospheric detail. Casual readers may find this dense tome a bit daunting, but serious music lovers will relish the deeper understanding it conveys of a genius who transformed Western music. --Wendy Smith -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

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The Learned Musician is an apt subtitle for this intellectual biography, which assesses the career of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) with the scholarly rigor one would expect from a Harvard professor. Opening with a 1737 attack by a critic who labeled Bach a pedant who spoiled the natural beauty of his creations with "an excess of art," Christoph Wolff cogently compares the German composer to English scientist Isaac Newton. Both men "brought about fundamental changes and established new principles" in their chosen fields, he argues; both sought to reveal God's harmonious ordering of their world. While Wolff conscientiously covers the basics of Bach's life, including his two marriages and the musical achievements of his gifted family, the author's primary focus is on his performing (Bach was an unrivaled organist) and composing. From the Goldberg Variations through the Brandenburg Concertos to Art of the Fugue, Wolff carefully analyzes Bach's innovations in harmony and counterpoint, placing them in the context of European musical and social history rendered in nicely atmospheric detail. Casual readers may find this dense tome a bit daunting, but serious music lovers will relish the deeper understanding it conveys of a genius who transformed Western music. --Wendy Smith -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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By an auspicious coincidence, Sebastian Nagel, town piper of Gotha and friend of Johann Ambrosius Bach, happened to be in Eisenach on the third weekend in March 1685. Lesen Sie die erste Seite

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5.0 von 5 Sternen The Bach biography, 18. Juli 2000

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This is unquestionably the single volume Bach biography for non-specialists, although musicologists will find it invaluable as well. Wolff has done a lot of debunking of various Bach myths (i.e., "Bach died while writing the final fugue in Art of Fugue, and dictated the chorale in his last breath"), but stilll has never lost his sense of wonder about this giant. Wolff also does a better job than most of placing Bach in European intellectual history as a whole, not just musical history. His comparison of Bach to Newton, while not original, is apt and insightful. The best thing about this book, however, is that it led me back to the music with several new insights. For example, Wolff's analysis of the famous d minor tocatta (BWV 565) led me to realize just how advanced this very early work is. Highly reccomended.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen A fitting present for the Bach anniversary year!, 4. Juli 2000

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With this new Bach biography, Wolff presents us with his thorough establishment of an updated Bach image that might well become the new standard work! Although Wolff's writing style is very readable, it might be a good idea to thoroughly study the Appendix and the Table of Contents of this book before venturing into reading. Thus equipped, one will find that Wolff proceeds very systematically and logically. Let me not describe to you what this book is not but rather what it is: An excellent biography of the development of Bach's musical mind and of all his musical gifts--those of the harpsichordist, organist, organ expert, music teacher, composer, conductor and music director, as this is also reflected in the sub-title of the English original: The Learned Musician. Wolff relies on original documents, early records such as the Necrologue (started by Bach, completed by his son C.P.E. Bach and Agricola), Forkel's biography of 1802, still relevant findings of Spitta and later writers, however, also on his own research of several decades, including his 1999 discovery of the Bach family documents in Kiew. In tracing the musical heritage of the Bach family, Bach's own development during his childhood at Eisenach, his youth at Ohrdruf and Lunenburg, Wolff carefully develops before us a picture of the basis upon which Bach could build his musical career as an adult. Also in his further description of Bach's development as organist at Arnstadt, M�hlhausen and at the Weimar Court, in his Weimar promotion to Concert Master, in his work as Kapellmeister at K�then, and right into his activity as Leipzig Thomaskantor, Bach's musical growth and maturation is described to us in a clear, systematic and understandable manner, since the development of every pre-requisite of ever musical progress is described just as systeatically and understandably. As a serious musicologist Wolff concentrates--of course!--mainly on the history of Bach's musical development, and in doing so, the biographical-anecdotal is only referred to in such a manner as it, first of all, can be considered reliable and, secondly, is relevant. Since the appendix also provides a thorough time table, one never needs to be at a loss with respect to mere bare-bone facts of Bach's curriculum vitae. Wolff's manner of proceeding, however, ensures that the musical-biographical tension of his argument never lets up! Thus we learn easily how Bach, during his early adult years (at Arnstadt, M�hlhausen, Weimar and K�then), developed into a master composer and music teacher who would also continue to challenge himself in his (by others often considered a 'decline' of sorts) position as Leipzig Thomas Cantor, such as in his extensive Cantata work and the Passion works of the 1720's, but also his additional activity as Director Musices of the Collegium Musicum during the 1730's. Wolff argues very convincingly and understandably that Bach's alleged stubbornness might have been mainly motivated by his striving for musical excellence and only rarely left those boundaries. Only after the description of Bach's career up to 1740 do we find a chapter on his family life which I enjoyed very much both on the basis of its factual accuracy as well as on that of its great sense of tact. The Muscial Biography finds it conclusion with the description of Bach's last decade in which he mainly concentrated on the Mass in B and on the Art of the Fugue. The entire biographical core is framed in by Wolff's preface, prologue and epilogue. One of the main ideas presented in these sections is that of Bach's role as musical equivalent to Isaac Newton's striving as a physicist in this era of exploration of the turn of the 17th to the 18th century.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen A Biography Worthy of Bach, 31. Mai 2000

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For those who have read the many earlier works by Prof. Christoph Wolff on Bach, this is the long-anticipated culmination of the author's immense scholarship. Wolff, the dean of Bach scholars, gives us a detailed, sympathetic narrative, filled with interesting details. I now know how much a pint of beer costs in Arnstadt in the early 1700s, what Bach must have felt like when thrown into the clinker for youthful insubordination, and how disappointed Bach must have been when Louis Marchand failed to show up for the much-anticipated organ shoot-out. Wolff gives us many useful tables and charts, putting music, musicians, family history, and other complicated matters into context. Many of the stories familiar to students of Bach are richly and vividly retold: Bach's 250-mile trek to hear Buxtehude, his bouts with small-minded city bureacrats and smaller-minded princes and dukes, the desperate, but futile attempt to save his eyesight during the last months of Bach's life. What I came to appreciate most was the author's ability to put the corpus of Bach's work into persepctive. Wolff is most impressive in his final chapter, putting Bach rightly in his place: the creative genius, the foundation of Western music. If you love Bach, you will definitely cherish this book.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Great book!
Of all of the books on Bach that I have in my library, the new biography by Christoph Wolff is first rate. Lesen Sie weiter...

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